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Posted by Florina Muntenescu, Developer Advocate (@FMuntenescu) At Google I/O 2019 we announced that Android development will become increasingly Kotlin-first. Together with JetBrains, we also launched Kotlin/Everywhere - a global series of community led events focusing on the potential of using Kotlin everywhere; on Android, servers, web front-end and other platforms. Kotlin/Everywhere events took place from May through December and we want to thank everyone for getting involved 👨‍💻👩‍💻 30,000+ developers participated in-person at Kotlin/Everywhere events 🎥🍿 200,000 views of live-streams and event recordings like Kotlin/Everywhere Bengaluru , Minsk , Chicago , Buenos Aires and more. 📅 500+ events : from short evening meetups, half-day sessions, and full day events, to Kotlin/Everywhere tracks at larger events like DevFests, or even StudyJams that spanned several weeks. 🎤 ~30 speakers from Google and JetBrains gave ~70 talks at events around the world. 🌎 85+ countries/regi...

Posted by David Winer , Kotlin Product Manager When we announced Kotlin as a supported language for Android, there was a tremendous amount of excitement among developers. Since then, there has been a steady increase in the number of developers using Kotlin. Today, we’re proud to say nearly 60% of the top 1,000 Android apps contain Kotlin code , with more and more Android developers introducing safer and more concise code using Kotlin. During this year’s I/O, we announced that Android development will be Kotlin-first, and we’ve stood by that commitment. This is one of the reasons why Android is the gold partner for this year’s KotlinConf . Seamless Kotlin on Android In 2019, we focused on making programming in Kotlin on Android a seamless experience, with modern Kotlin-first APIs across the Android platform. Earlier this year, we launched a developer preview of Jetpack Compose , a modern UI toolkit for Android built using a Kotlin domain-specific language (DSL). We also incorporated c...